Example sentences of "than [be] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all claims to the contrary , English , rather than being at the core of the humanities , has become " merely one subject among others . " |
| 2 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
| 3 | But I guess , one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association , rather than being at the peak of one . |
| 4 | And rather than being at the mercy of the autobiographer 's choice of what to mention , we can ask questions and open up areas of significant memory which would otherwise have been lost . |
| 5 | onto the thing , so you know , it was like well it 's better than being at the telly . |